Zurich-based Flexion has secured €43 million ($50 million) in Series A funding to accelerate development of its AI autonomy platform for humanoid robots.
The round was led by DST Global Partners with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA), redalpine, Prosus Ventures, and Moonfire — arriving only months after its €6.3 million Seed raise.
“We’re not designing the bodies,” the team said. “We’re building the intelligence that helps humanoids work independently in real-world environments. It’s difficult — but the right kind of difficult.”
A Strong Year for Robotics Funding in Europe
Flexion’s round sits within a broader wave of robotics investment across Europe in 2025. Major raises include NEURA Robotics (€120M for cognitive humanoids), mimic (€13.8M for dexterous robotic hands), Unchained Robotics (€8.5M for automation tools), sensmore (€6.5M for physical AI in heavy machinery), and several others.
Combined, these disclosed rounds total roughly €165 million — positioning Flexion’s €43 million Series A among the most notable mid-sized raises in Europe’s fast-accelerating cognitive robotics landscape.
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Building Adaptive Autonomy for Real-World Robots
Founded in 2024, Flexion focuses exclusively on robot intelligence rather than mechanical design. Its founding team — with experience from ETH Zurich, NVIDIA, Google, Meta, Tesla, and Amazon — is developing a reinforcement-learning-driven platform built for complex environments where humanoids must perceive, reason, and act with minimal human supervision.
The system combines natural-language task interpretation, vision-language-action simulation, and transformer-based full-body control, enabling robots to move beyond pre-scripted behaviours and toward adaptive autonomy.
Scaling R&D, Infrastructure, and Global Deployment
With the new funding, the company will expand its Zurich research hub, build extensive simulation and compute infrastructure, open a U.S. office, and accelerate commercial deployments with major hardware OEMs already partnered with the company.
Unlike many humanoid projects that prioritise lifelike designs, Flexion targets the core bottleneck: cognition. Its autonomy layer is hardware-agnostic, meaning it can operate across different robot bodies for use cases in manufacturing, logistics, industrial automation, disaster response, and even off-planet missions.
A Timely Push as Labour Shortages Deepen
Flexion sees humanoid robotics as an economic necessity. With global demographics shifting — and one-third of people in developed countries projected to be over 60 by 2050 — industries face intensifying labour shortages.
Next-generation robots powered by LLM-scale compute and high-fidelity simulation could become essential to sustaining productivity across key sectors.
About Flexion Robotics
Flexion Robotics develops autonomy software that enables humanoid robots to perform human-level tasks with adaptable, real-world precision. Its intelligence stack spans perception, control, manipulation, and natural-language understanding, operating across any robot hardware. Using reinforcement learning and large-scale simulation, Flexion delivers scalable robot performance with minimal human input.
